In Honor of Mother's Day / Poll
 

Most of the real hard-core brats I have known were/are "only" kids.

Kid stuff
 

He can park the kid(s) in front of the TV with a DVD of My Little Pony XIV playing and yap on the computer all day long.

(Smacked with a) POLL
 

Put the collar on the kid.

(Smacked with a) POLL
 

Having again been logged out automatically, I'll try that again (yes, I accept cookies, and no, I'm not hitting refresh).

Worst was sort of cumulative, but it was capped by the offending 9 year old distant relation coming up to me and grabbing my crotch, saying "I know what you've got down there, all sluts have cunts!" I did smack him - backhanded him actually. There was a knife next to me, the fucker was lucky. Yes, the parents needed to be beaten with sticks, but they were too drunk to do anything but fight. I understand that his behavior has improved markedly since being sent to a boarding school with corporal punishment, actually.

On abusing guilty parents, I still fondly remember having dinner once with some HS friends and one of their fathers, who was a real curmudgeon (er, that's a compliment in my world). There were two little kids running around unattended and shrieking, doing the "bad kid in a restaurant" thing. My friend's father complained to the waiter a couple of times. Finally, one of the kids, running while looking backwards at the chasing kid, smacked into someone's table and sloshed their drinks all over, and plopped down in the middle of the restaurant screaming. My friends' father slammed his fist down on the table and stood up, bellowing "Get me the manager, I demand that it be removed immediately. And [pointing at the parents], if you do what is right you'll kill it before it can grow up." He got scattered applause, actually. I've always wished since that I had the balls to make a scene like that.

I met a kid once who, at his mother's art opening, set some of the peices on fire an managed to gut both the gallery and his mother's career. He was appropriately named Damian. Having such kids off a leash is ultimately its own punishment, I guess.

(Smacked with a) POLL
 

The mother of the kid in question works probably 80 to 100 hours a week. I think that the father works at home, but I'm not quite sure. From watching the interactions with parents and children, I'd say that almost everything is delegated, and bargaining is the way parents relate with their kids. I will say, the kid is getting a little better as he gets older, but I still won't let the Displaced Dog anywhere near him.

My mom had four kids in five years. In those five years she got a doctorate. When she walked across the stage to get the degree, she was pregnant, and afterwards, she decided to stay at home. She ran several businesses, including my father's, but she never had a real job, never got a W2, never got a 1099. But, if my family had to hire someone to do what she did while she "wasn't working" it would have cost several million over the course of her 23 years of staying home with the kids. Yes, in the early years, raising the kids undoubtably were the focus of her life, but in reality her focus was on all aspects of the family.

Overrated/Underrated
 

There used to be a place called Mama Desta. It was in a strip mall at Richmond and Shepard, Across from the Indian Restaurant and Lil' Pappasito's. There was also a Jamaican night club there. You might not want to go into the Jamaican nightclub. :bang:

(Smacked with a) POLL
 

The "browse board with cookies" option won't solve the problem since the cookies automatically time out. If they time out and you do not have the "Automatically login when you return to site" set to "Yes," you will get logged out automatically after the cookie expires (in other words, while you're composing your post). So, you need to have the "automatically login" selection set to yes, which you currently don't. If you want an admin to change it for you, we can.

In honor of mothers' day
 

There's this outlaw website in Mexico. It's kinda like Ebay, but you can sell more...unique items. ;)

Computer facts of interest
 

As other people log on temporarily to each others computers around here, and the different user gets the internet preferences on the hard drive, that's not really an option.

However, more amusing computer troubles, this guy had a meteor smash through his roof and kill his printer while he was working: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...ll_navarro.jpg
(spree: picture of meteoric destruction)edited to fix pic



edited by MR to replace pic with a link to the pic

buy the cards
 

http://www.greatusaflags.com/product...&aff_sub_id=13

(Site to buy the cards that the troops were using to identify the different most wanted Iraqis.)
http://www.greatusaflags.com/images/novelty_mw_l.jpg

Computer facts of interest
 

Sorry about the pic size.

underrated
 

Or some old asshole who takes a bunch of cardiac drugs that cause all kinds of surprises in the sexual function department.

(Smacked with a) POLL
 

Probably. This dog was WILD when he was a puppy. He put my sister in the hospital twice (once chasing a cat and knocking her down, and once trying to get a stick out of her hand and accidently grabbing her wrist). Going to training school was supposed to calm him down and give him focus, and he's an excellent retreiver, so there was the added bonus of not having to wade in after ducks. So he spent a month learning the ins and outs of retrieving, and he calmed down quite a bit after doing boot camp.

The look of supreme disgust and disappointment on this dog's face when you shoot at and miss a duck is downright humbling.

Edited to add: When Holden went to gun school, the guy who trained him assured us that he NEVER used shock collars on dogs. Then he spent time with Holden and realized that he finally met a dog that would only respond to the shock collar.

Computer facts of interest
 

Then I suggest adopting the practice of hitting ctrl-a (select all) and ctrl-c (copy) before you hit the submit reply button. It will save you a lot of heartache.

Kid stuff
 

Fairly.